Donald Trump slams ‘awake’ football team after losing Olympic gold

Former President Donald Trump chastises the ‘awakened’ US women’s football team for failing to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics, adding: ‘everything that is awake is wrong, and our football team certainly did “.

“If our football team, led by a radical group of maniacal leftists, had not been awakened, they would have won the gold instead of the bronze. Awake means you lose, anything awake is wrong, and our football team certainly did, ”Trump said Thursday in an emailed statement.

“There were, however, a few Patriots standing. Unfortunately, they need more than that by respecting our country and our national anthem. They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again, ”added Trump.

He also singled out Megan Rapinoe, who has voiced her criticism of the former president and has taken on social justice and advocacy initiatives.

“The purple haired woman has played terribly and spends too much time thinking about the politics of the radical left and not doing her job!” He said.

Trump expressed his displeasure with the No.1-ranked United States national women’s football team, which was overwhelmingly favorite to win a gold medal, after beating Australia 4-3 for the bronze medal.

He also shot the team last month after their 3-0 loss to Sweden in the opener, saying the loss was an example of “waking politics”.

“Enlightened politics takes life and joy from everything. Awakening causes you to lose, ruins your mind, and ruins you as a person. You become deformed. You go insane, ”Trump said during a speech to the Turning Point Action Political Action Committee in Phoenix.

The women’s team knelt with the Swedish team ahead of their July 21 match in Tokyo to protest racism.

But the players stood up during the national anthem.

Rapinoe and some members of the team began kneeling during the anthem in 2016 in solidarity with former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Some members of the football team also knelt before national games after George Floyd died at the hands of police in May 2020.

In an interview with The Associated Press following the loss to Sweden, Rapinoe said athletes should use their platforms to make their voices heard.

“We have people from Team USA, from all over the country, from all walks of life, and people from all over the world for all the other teams, so obviously I encourage everyone to use this platform to the best of their ability to to do as much good as they possibly can in the world, especially as all eyes are on Tokyo for the next few weeks, ”she said.